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| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig | 13 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig b/drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig index 6787ed8dfacf..c666ea4f1252 100644 --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig @@ -143,13 +143,16 @@ config EFI_GENERIC_STUB_INITRD_CMDLINE_LOADER bool "Enable the command line initrd loader" if !X86 depends on EFI_STUB && (EFI_GENERIC_STUB || X86) default y if X86 - depends on !RISCV && !LOONGARCH help Select this config option to add support for the initrd= command - line parameter, allowing an initrd that resides on the same volume - as the kernel image to be loaded into memory. - - This method is deprecated. + line parameter, allowing an initrd to be loaded into memory that + resides on a file system backed by an implementation of + EFI_SIMPLE_FILE_SYSTEM_PROTOCOL. + + This method has been superseded by the simpler LoadFile2 based + initrd loading method, but the initrd= loader is retained as it + can be used from the UEFI Shell or other generic loaders that + don't implement the Linux specific LoadFile2 method. config EFI_BOOTLOADER_CONTROL tristate "EFI Bootloader Control" |